Extra Credit Questions

[David Lockmiller]

In one letter to his father, Hingpo writes, “Is this just dealing, Heaven! to render millions wretched to swell up the happiness of a few? can not the powerful of this earth be happy without our sighs and tears? must every luxury of the great be woven from the calamities of the poor?”

Though the circumstances of Hingpo’s enslavement in Persia differed from those of African Americans in the United States, Lincoln would have understood the commonalities of suffering and longing for freedom."

William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
(Orlando, Act 5 Scene 2)